"FSG's Most Important Summer?" Last Summer.
Money was there [City & Chelsea type money
]; kudos [Champions League football] was there and title rivals were on the ropes [just like the season before btw] and just like the previous season...
The same path was chosen - potential quality & low financial risk over proven quality with higher financial risk. A, long-term, well documented, strategy which
might, (it's still being argued), eventually, maybe, perhaps, somewhere down the line, deliver a title-winning team. A strategy which has at it's heart finance and 'good business practice' rather than football... better to risk football success than profit.
The Club's, footballing, objectives/goals, for this season were set out: consolidation in a Champions League qualifying place - with our signings it was the best we could hope for, really - the manger referenced it and many fans (even tho' they were "happy with our transfer business"
) acknowledged it. There was "always next season" after all.
Well... "next season" is soon to be upon us and whilst I believe that there's still a chance that we can qualify for the Champions League; I want our targets set higher than that next season. In my opinion: a move away (if even only temporarily) from the business-centric, 'potential quality', transfer policy towards a more football-centric 'proven quality' view is what's needed.
Are we a season (or two) too late? I hope not but hey... if not this Summer - there's always next year; right?
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